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Gay men risk of HIV 'still high'

Gay men are being urged to get HIV tests more regularly and practise safe sex in a bid to halt the high numbers of new cases in the UK.

The Health Protection Agency made the warning after new diagnoses among gay men topped 2,600 for the third year.

But the figures do seem to have begun to plateau after a surge at the turn of the century.

Overall, the number of new cases hit an estimated 6,840 in 2007 - a fall of 1,400 from the previous year.


Gay men continue to be the group most at risk of acquiring HIV within the UK
Dr Valerie Delpech

The HPA said this was mostly due to a decline in cases among those infected heterosexually in Africa.

But experts said the new cases among gay men was still at worrying levels.

There were 2,630 diagnoses - a slight fall on previous years, but much higher than the annual figures in the 1990s which tended to hover around 1,500.

HPA head of HIV surveillance Dr Valerie Delpech said: "Gay men continue to be the group most at risk of acquiring HIV within the UK.

"We need to reinforce the safe sex message for gay men that the best way to protect yourself from contracting HIV is practising safe sex by using a condom with all new and casual partners."

She also urged more regular testing so treatment could be started earlier and to reduce the risk of transmission to partners.

The figures are only provisional as they also take into account the expected delays in diagnosis.

The Department of Health has announced a review of national HIV prevention programmes.

Genevieve Clark, of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said it was "good news" that the figures for gay men seemed to be levelling off.

But she warned the number of cases was still too high and called for easier access to testing as some places had long waits for access to sexual health clinics.

Deborah Jack, of the National AIDS Trust, said: "It is a concern that HIV diagnoses are still increasing among gay men and heterosexuals infected in the UK.

"Alongside improved prevention we urgently need better HIV testing strategies.

"HIV is often not picked up early enough by health professionals and late diagnoses increase the liklihood of HIV being passed on, as well as greatly reducing the health prospects of people living with HIV."

A Department of Health spokesman said money had been invested in recent years to improve waiting times.


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did you have your breakfast in the snow in underwear

Speedos and half nude guys in the snow

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Advices for Leather beginners

David Menkes knows a thing or two about leather. He’d better, after running his own custom leather studio for 30 years making fetish gear for private clients (including countless leather title holders). For you label whores, he’s even made leather designs for Sean John and Philip Lim. In preparation for the big night at the Roseland, we talked to Menkes about how to buy, maintain and store your prized possessions after the party has wrapped.

1. Go for the Strong, Silent Type.
As far as leather goes, listen for a soft sound when you handle it, not a crinkly sound; that means it’s a cheap leather. Straps should be soft at the edges, handleable [and] not sharp. Try to look for things that are heavy duty and will last longer. You want to find something that isn’t made in too many pieces. I like a bare style. I think it should show the lines of the body.

2. Give and Take.
Leather will stretch at the seat and the knees and generally about 10 percent, depending on the weight of the leather, but that’s over a period of time. It takes about 3 months of wearing it. On pants and chaps, the waistband won’t stretch. Pants should fit you nice in the waist and be tight all over, at first. That will also encourage you to go to the gym and look better in your leather.

3. Treat It Right.
Oil it with conditioner, not cleaner. Don’t use saddle soap on clothes. If it’s dirty, wipe it down with a moist cloth. If it’s more than surface dirt, use the foam from a bar of Ivory soap, but not the bar itself. Keep them supple but not wet, and over time they will perform beautifully. Things can be altered over time if your body changes. As long as you keep it supple, it will last a lifetime.

4. Use it, don’t abuse it.
Store leather away from heat. It’s best in a drawer or put it in the coolest part of your closet and hang it on a hanger or with clips. Don’t let it hang there forever. Don’t take it out just once a year, you want to take it out and use it. At least shake it out and lay it flat every so often.

5. If It Feels Good, Do It.
You want to look for things that appeal to you. Don’t buy things on a whim. Go for something you feel comfortable with, not what your friends tell you looks good or doesn’t. It’s all about fantasy, and you’ll look better and more confident if it’s something that makes you feel great.

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Pregnant man exists

Thomas Beattie lives in Oregon and is married to a woman named Nancy. He's pregnant.

To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.

I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.

Arthur Charles Clarke was gay?

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, Sri Lankabhimanya (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British (lived in Sri Lanka since 1956) science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which led also to the film of the same name; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.

Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941-1946, proposed satellite communication systems in 1945 which won him the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal in 1963 and a nomination in 1994 for a Nobel Prize, and became the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953. Later, he helped fight for the preservation of lowland gorillas and won the UNESCO-Kalinga Prize in 1962.

Clarke was knighted in 1998. He emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956, where he lived until his death.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Clarke's first venture into film was the Stanley Kubrick-directed 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick and Clarke had met in 1964 to discuss the possibility of a collaborative film project. As the idea developed, it was decided that the story for the film was to be loosely based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", written in 1948 as an entry in a BBC short story competition. Originally, Clarke was going to write the screenplay for the film, but this proved to be more tedious than he had estimated. Instead, Kubrick and Clarke decided it would be best to write a novel first and then adapt it for the film upon its completion. However, as Clarke was finishing the book, the screenplay was also being written simultaneously.

Clarke's influence on the directing of 2001: A Space Odyssey is also felt in one of the most memorable scenes in the movie when astronaut Bowman shuts down HAL by removing modules from service one by one. As this happens, we witness HAL's consciousness degrading. By the time HAL's logic is completely gone, he begins singing the song Daisy Bell. This song was chosen based on a visit by Clarke to his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility. A speech synthesis demonstration by physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr was taking place. Kelly was using an IBM 704 computer to synthesise speech. His voice recorder synthesiser vocoder reproduced the vocal for Daisy Bell, with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Arthur C. Clarke was so impressed that he later told Kubrick to use it in this climactic scene.

Due to the hectic schedule of the film's production, Kubrick and Clarke had difficulty collaborating on the book. Clarke completed a draft of the novel at the end of 1964 with the plan to publish in 1965 in advance of the film's release in 1966. After many delays the film was released in the spring of 1968, before the book was completed. The book was credited to Clarke alone. Clarke later complained that this had the effect of making the book into a novelisation, that Kubrick had manipulated circumstances to downplay Clarke's authorship. For these and other reasons, the details of the story differ slightly from the book to the movie. The film is a bold artistic piece with little explanation for the events taking place. Clarke, on the other hand, wrote thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel. Despite their differences, both film and novel were well received.

In 1972, Clarke published The Lost Worlds of 2001, which included his account of the production and alternate versions of key scenes. The "special edition" of the novel A Space Odyssey (released in 1999) contains an introduction by Clarke, documenting his account of the events leading to the release of the novel and film.

The Eiffel Tower as you never saw it before

The architect David Serero french imagined an extension of the Eiffel Tower on its summit. Visitors promèneraient on a platform attached to the 3rd floor of the monument. The case made loud noise and the world press has seized. For the operating company of the Tour, it is a hoax. It ensures that he never ordered the project. But the architect is formal: his idea is feasible.

The platform created by David Serero would be installed temporarily at the 3rd floor of the Eiffel Tower in 2009 to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the famous building

With this extension, people could walk 1700 per hour, on top of the Tour. They have a 360 ° views over the rooftops of Paris

David Serero, who dreamed this project is a french architect. For him, this extension is not a hoax, but is quite achievable. His development proposal was unveiled in mid-March 2008

This platform will be built around the tower, as a collar. Visitors emprunteraient, from the 3rd floor, 4 of stairs to enter it.

interesting questions about HIV

A good friend of mine works as a doctor in the area of sexual health in the UK. He was kind enough to answer some questions on misconceptions and thoughts about HIV for me.

Clinics are now saying 6 weeks is the length of time after infection that a positive result will show up. Can it take longer?
The traditional ‘window period’ for testing after a specific risk is 12 weeks. However a large number of people who contract HIV have developed antibodies by 6-10 weeks. This has been known for ages. The test that we are discussing is the antibody test,however a viral load test can be positive within a week of the virus infecting someone.
The advice is the same as it always has been
1. HIV test but wait 12 weeks after the risk
2. Occasionally if someone is very anxious can do the HIV antibody test after 6-10 weeks as long as they know to come back at 12 weeks for a repeat test if the first test is negative
3. If someone is having a seroconversion illness we do a Viral load test which is different to the hiv antibody test and not done routinely.

I’ve been told that you will know when you are sero-converting by one person and by another that he didn’t have any idea. Does it affect different people differently?
Studies suggest seroconversion illness occurs in approx 20-30% of patients but the symptoms are very non specific and easily mistaken for a flu/sore throat/diarrhoea ie very common symptoms…which is the problem ,at their most infectious ,most people dont recognise or know they have HIV.

What is your opinion on the theory that there are people who are “immune” to HIV? I do occasionally see people who are having huge risk or long tem partners of known hiv infected partners who never got the infection themselves.

People are living longer and healthier without medication these days. Why do you think that is?
Hmmmmmm not sure we can make a general statement like that….people in Africa may not agree! Patients may be getting tested earlier and so,appear to live longer post diagnosis. In the early days of the epidemic,people were diagnosing in very late stage (AIDS) disease and die shortly after.

How many different strains of HIV would you estimate there might be out there now?
Apart from HIV 1 and HIV 2 , HIV 1 is subclassified into subtypes or clades,the list of wich is growing as different clades recombine and produce what we call recombinants. At the moment approx clades A-G exist plus an endless list of recombinant clades wich have not been classified as yet.

People still think it’s nearly impossible to catch HIV being the “top”. Do you have any statistics on infection rates for the varying sexual roles?
Check the following resource from http://www.bashh.org/guidelines.asp and click the second link under HIV to download a pdf.

go to table 2

Table 2 The risk of HIV transmission following an exposure from a
known HIV-positive individual
Type of exposure
Estimated risk of HIV
transmission per exposure (%)
Blood transfusion (one unit) 90–100
Receptive anal intercourse 0.1–3.0
Receptive vaginal intercourse 0.1–0.27
Insertive vaginal intercourse 0.03–0.09
Insertive anal intercourse 0.06
Receptive oral sex (fellatio) 0–0.04
Needle–stick injury 0.3 (95 CI 0.2–0.5)
Sharing injecting equipment 0.67
Mucous membrane exposure 0.09 (95 CI 0.006–0.5)

Is there any data on the percentage of the gay population currently living with HIV? Seroprevalence in london suggests 15-20% of all gay men london are positive. Not too sure in sydney…check the ASHM website

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Barack Obama interview

Barack Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. But will voters buy it?

When Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama met in California for the Jan. 31 debate, their back-and-forth resembled their many previous encounters, with the Democratic presidential hopefuls scrambling for the small policy yardage between them. And then Obama said something about the Iraq War that wasn't incremental at all. "I don't want to just end the war," he said, "but I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place."

Until this point in the primaries, Clinton and Obama had sounded very similar on this issue. Despite their differences in the past (Obama opposed the war, while Clinton voted for it), both were calling for major troop withdrawals, with some residual force left behind to hedge against catastrophe. But Obama's concise declaration of intent at the debate upended this assumption. Clinton stumbled to find a counterargument, eventually saying her vote in October 2002 "was not authority for a pre-emptive war." Then she questioned Obama's ability to lead, saying that the Democratic nominee must have "the necessary credentials and gravitas for commander in chief."

If Clinton's response on Iraq sounds familiar, that's because it's structurally identical to the defensive crouch John Kerry assumed in 2004: Voting against the war wasn't a mistake; the mistakes were all George W. Bush's, and bringing the war to a responsible conclusion requires a wise man or woman with military credibility. In that debate, Obama offered an alternative path. Ending the war is only the first step. After we're out of Iraq, a corrosive mind-set will still be infecting the foreign-policy establishment and the body politic. That rot must be eliminated.

Obama is offering the most sweeping liberal foreign-policy critique we've heard from a serious presidential contender in decades. It cuts to the heart of traditional Democratic timidity. "It's time to reject the counsel that says the American people would rather have someone who is strong and wrong than someone who is weak and right," Obama said in a January speech. "It's time to say that we are the party that is going to be strong and right." (The Democrat who counseled that Americans wanted someone strong and wrong, not weak and right? That was Bill Clinton in 2002.)

But to understand what Obama is proposing, it's important to ask: What, exactly, is the mind-set that led to the war? What will it mean to end it? And what will take its place?

To answer these questions, I spoke at length with Obama's foreign-policy brain trust, the advisers who will craft and implement a new global strategy if he wins the nomination and the general election. They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering "democracy promotion" agenda in favor of "dignity promotion," to fix the conditions of misery that breed anti-Americanism and prevent liberty, justice, and prosperity from taking root. An inextricable part of that doctrine is a relentless and thorough destruction of al-Qaeda. Is this hawkish? Is this dovish? It's both and neither - an overhaul not just of our foreign policy but of how we think about foreign policy. And it might just be the future of American global leadership.



When considering any presidential hopeful's foreign-policy promises, it's important to remember that what candidates say is, at best, an imperfect guide to their actions in office. What proves to be a more reliable indicator of presidential behavior is a candidate's roster of advisers. (If the press had paid better attention, the country would have seen through Bush's pitch about a humble foreign policy and realized that many of his advisers, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, were conspiracy-minded warmongers.) Obama's foreign-policy advisers come from diverse backgrounds. They are former aides to Democratic mandarins like Tom Daschle and Lee Hamilton (Denis McDonough and Ben Rhodes, respectively); veterans of the Clinton administration's left flank (Tony Lake and Susan Rice); a human-rights advocate who helped write the Army's and Marine Corps' much-lauded counterinsurgency field manual (Sarah Sewall); a retired general who helped run the air war during the invasion of Iraq (Scott Gration); and a former journalist who revolutionized the study of U.S. foreign policy (Samantha Power). Yet they form a committed, intellectually coherent, and surprisingly united foreign-affairs team. (Shortly before this piece went to press, Power resigned from the campaign after making an intemperate remark to a reporter.)

They also share a formative experience with each other and with Obama. Each opposed the Iraq War at a time when doing so was derided by their colleagues, by journalists, and by the foreign-policy establishment. Each did so because they understood that the invasion and occupation ran counter to the goal of destroying al-Qaeda. And each bore the frustration of endless lectures on their lack of so-called seriousness from those who suffered from strategic myopia.

"There is a popular notion that Democrats have to try to appear like Republicans to pass some test on national security. The fact that that's still the case after Iraq is absurd," says one of Obama's closest advisers. "So you break from that orthodoxy and say 'I don't care if the Republicans attack me because I'm willing to meet with the leadership in Iran. We haven't for 25 years, and it's not gotten us anywhere.'"

Most of the members of Obama's foreign-policy team expressed frustration that they had taken a well-considered and seemingly anodyne position on Iraq and suffered for it. Obama had something similar happen to him in the spring and summer of 2007. He was attacked from the left and the right for saying three things that should not have been controversial: that if he had actionable intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda's leadership in Pakistan but no cooperation from the Pakistani government, he would take out the jihadists; that he wouldn't use nuclear weapons on terrorist training camps; and that he would be willing to meet with leaders of rogue states in his first year as president. "No one [of Obama's critics] had thought through the policy because that was the quote-unquote naïve and weak position, so they said it was a bad position to take," recalls Ben Rhodes, the adviser who writes Obama's foreign-policy speeches. "And it was a seminal moment, because Obama himself said, 'No, I'm right about this!'"

Instead of backing down, Obama asked his foreign-policy team to double down. Rhodes wrote a speech that Obama delivered at DePaul University on Oct. 2, which criticized the boundaries of acceptable discourse set by the same establishment that backed the war. "This election is about ending the Iraq War, but even more it's about moving beyond it. And we're not going to be safe in a world of unconventional threats with the same old conventional thinking that got us into Iraq," Obama said. One of his advisers, recalling the fallout from Obama's comments about pursuing al-Qaeda in Pakistan, says, "He takes policy positions that are a break from both rigid orthodoxy and the Bush administration. And everyone says it's a gaffe! That just encapsulates everything that's wrong about the foreign-policy debate in Washington and in Democratic politics."

The Obama foreign-policy team describes it as "the politics of fear," a phrase most advisers used unprompted in our conversations. "For a long time we've not seen much creative thinking from Dems on national security, because, out of fear, we want to be a little different from the Republicans but not too different, out of fear of being labeled weak or indecisive," another top adviser says. Identifying that fear as the accelerant of the Iraq War mind-set is the first step to a new and innovative foreign policy. John Kerry was not able to argue for fundamental change in foreign policy because he was consumed by that very political fear. Obama's admonition to Democrats is much like Pope John Paul II's to the Gdansk shipyard strikers - first, be not afraid.



Like Obama, his defense advisers have supplemented their American views with the perspectives of outsiders. Gen. Scott Gration, a retired Air Force jet pilot, says hello to me over the phone in Swahili. He learned about the crushing misery of the world's poor by growing up in Congo, where his parents were missionaries. After the violence following Congolese independence in 1960, Gration had an experience few Americans ever will: He became a refugee. "We lost everything we owned, and what we took with us, they confiscated," he remembers.

Sarah Sewall, a Harvard professor and another of Obama's closest advisers, also knows about stepping outside of her comfort zone. A longtime human-rights advocate with the disarmament organization, the Council for a Livable World, Sewall found herself in 2005 and 2006 with an unlikely partner: Gen. David Petraeus. He and two colleagues were rewriting the Army and Marine field manual for counterinsurgency and wanted Sewall's input on how to create a more just, humane, and successful doctrine. For agreeing to help, she was attacked by some on the left. "Should a human-rights center at the nation's most prestigious university be collaborating with the top U.S. general in Iraq in designing the counterinsurgency doctrine behind the current military surge?" Tom Hayden wrote online in The Huffington Post.

Sewall's involvement may have lost her some influence within the academic left, but she has become a hero to the military's growing circle of counterinsurgency theorist-practitioners. "Her impact on the thinking about the war and the conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been significant and not without cost," says Army Lt. Col. John Nagl, one of the counterinsurgency community's luminaries. "She has shown, in my eyes, great moral courage. I think Senator Obama is listening to someone who has thought long and hard about the use of force and who understands the kinds of wars we're fighting today."

This ability to see the world from different perspectives informs what the Obama team hopes will replace the Iraq War mind-set: something they call dignity promotion. "I don't think anyone in the foreign-policy community has as much an appreciation of the value of dignity as Obama does," says Samantha Power, a former key aide and author of the groundbreaking study of U.S. foreign policy and genocide, A Problem From Hell. "Dignity is a way to unite a lot of different strands [of foreign-policy thinking]," she says. "If you start with that, it explains why it's not enough to spend $3 billion on refugee camps in Darfur, because the way those people are living is not the way they want to live. It's not a human way to live. It's graceless - an affront to your sense of dignity."

During Bush's second term, a strange disconnect has arisen in liberal foreign-policy circles in response to the president's so-called "freedom agenda." Some liberals, like Matthew Yglesias in his book Heads In The Sand, note the insincerity of the administration's stated goal of exporting democracy. Bush, they observe, only targets for democratization countries that challenge American hegemony. Other liberal foreign-policy types, such as Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, insist the administration is sincere but too focused on elections without supporting the civil-society institutions that sustain democracy. Still others, like Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, contend that a focus on democracy in the developing world without privileging the protection of civil and political rights is a recipe for a dangerous illiberalism.

What's typically neglected in these arguments is the simple insight that democracy does not fill stomachs, alleviate malaria, or protect neighborhoods from marauding bands of militiamen. Democracy, in other words, is valuable to people insofar as it allows them first to meet their basic needs. It is much harder to provide that sense of dignity than to hold an election in Baghdad or Gaza and declare oneself shocked when illiberal forces triumph. "Look at why the baddies win these elections," Power says. "It's because [populations are] living in climates of fear." U.S. policy, she continues, should be "about meeting people where they're at. Their fears of going hungry, or of the thug on the street. That's the swamp that needs draining. If we're to compete with extremism, we have to be able to provide these things that we're not [providing]."

This is why, Obama's advisers argue, national security depends in large part on dignity promotion. Without it, the U.S. will never be able to destroy al-Qaeda. Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise - because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. "It's about attacking pools of potential terrorism around the globe," Gration says. "Look at Africa, with 900 million people, half of whom are under 18. I'm concerned that unless you start creating jobs and livelihoods we will have real big problems on our hands in ten to fifteen years."

Obama sees this as more than a global charity program; it is the anvil against which he can bring down the hammer on al-Qaeda. "He took many of the [counterinsurgency] principles - the paradoxes, like how sometimes you're less secure the more force is used - and looked at it from a more strategic perspective," Sewall says. "His policies deal with root causes but do not misconstrue root causes as a simple fix. He recognizes that you need to pursue a parallel anti-terrorism [course] in its traditional form along with this transformed approach to foreign policy." Not for nothing has Obama received private advice or public support from experts like former Clinton and Bush counterterrorism advisers Richard Clarke and Rand Beers, and John Brennan, the first chief of the National Counterterrorism Center.

The Obama foreign-affairs brain trust balks at the suggestion that what it's proposing is radical. "He said we'd take out al-Qaeda's senior leadership in the Pakistani tribal areas if Pakistan will not. That's not, to me, a revolutionary policy," Rhodes says. "Watching him get attacked on the right is absurd. You've got guys who argued for a massive invasion and occupation of a country that had nothing to do with 9-11 criticizing him for advocating the use of highly targeted force to kill Osama bin Laden!"

Rhodes is referring, of course, to John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who recently asked of Obama, "Will we risk the confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate who once suggested invading our ally, Pakistan?" It's no secret that McCain, a war hero who is to the right of Bush when it comes to Iraq, hopes to make this a foreign-policy election. Conventional wisdom holds this would give him an advantage over Obama. A Feb. 28 Pew Research Center poll found 43 percent of respondents believe Obama is "not tough enough" on foreign policy. Thirty-nine percent believe Obama's foreign policy is "just right," while 47 percent say the same of McCain.

Even so, Obama's foreign-policy advisers are thrilled at the prospect of facing McCain. Had the GOP nomination gone to Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee, politicians who don't particularly care about foreign policy, an Obama victory would not provide a mandate for the sweeping foreign-affairs overhaul his campaign proposes. November's election could be, for the first time in a very long time, a choice between two radically different visions of U.S. global engagement. "We want to have this debate with John McCain," a close Obama adviser says. "[Obama] will offer this clear contrast."

Susan Rice, an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and one of the few foreign-policy-establishment luminaries to sign on with Obama, explains what's at stake: "After eight years of George Bush, when the next president puts his or her hand on the Bible to be sworn in, the U.S. is going to get one brief second look [from the world] about whether the U.S. truly learned to change from its past mistakes, recent and historic, and whether we're again the kind of America people look to lead in a constructive fashion, or whether we're hopeless. In my opinion, they'll look at McCain and decide we're trapped in our old mistakes."

Of course, it remains to be seen how voters might look at an Obama-McCain race. "The important distinction will be, does Obama come across as saying he wants to make a break with the foreign policy of the last seven years, or does it sound like he'll take foreign policy in a fundamentally different direction than that of the last twenty, thirty, fifty years?" says Guy Molyneux, a Democratic pollster with Peter D. Hart Associates. Americans are eager to put the Bush doctrine behind them, Molyneux says, but there's a danger that voters will see Obama as a "young guy who's less experienced but sounds like he's taking off in a new direction."




In his focus on the importance of dignity in our policy toward the developing world, Obama sounds quite a bit like John F. Kennedy, who knitted together an argument for engagement with the "non-aligned" world and began the tradition of development assistance as a foreign-policy goal. However, Kennedy's basic foreign policy continued along the Cold War lines that had been laid down during the Truman administration.

Democratic presidential candidates since Kennedy have either downplayed foreign policy or simply argued for more competence in its execution, with two major exceptions: George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. In the popular imagination, based on the "Come home, America" line from his nomination acceptance speech, McGovern pivoted from a striking critique of the immorality of the Vietnam War to an indictment of U.S. involvement abroad. But McGovern purposefully left this broad criticism out of most of his campaign. "I concentrated on Vietnam," McGovern says in a phone interview, "because I thought it would be difficult to sell a comprehensive rewriting of American foreign policy." Carter is a more ambiguous case. In the wake of Watergate, he made a full-spectrum argument against the Washington establishment. Rethinking foreign policy was a part of that, and his aide Hamilton Jordan remarked, "If, after the inauguration, you find Cy Vance as secretary of state and Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of national security, then I would say we failed." Both men, of course, received precisely those posts.

Obama is doing something braver with foreign policy than McGovern or Carter. Much, of course, could go wrong. Right-wing demagogues are already implying Obama is a Muslim terrorist. Conservatives are using Obama's argument about the inextricability of international prosperity and U.S. national security to portray him as a "post-American globalist." Jewish right-wingers in the U.S. have begun a smear campaign not just about Obama, but also about Power, as writers for Commentary and National Review have baselessly implied that she is an anti-Semite. Expect more of this for the duration of the primary season, and, if Obama wins, beyond.

If he wins in the general election, he will face a crush of foreign-policy problems so enormous that they risk overwhelming even the most competent, experienced national-security team. Iraq is, of course, a nightmare, and al-Qaeda is not just sitting still in its Pakistani safe haven. To propose rebooting U.S. foreign policy now is, to say the least, ambitious. Many military leaders consider Obama an unknown quantity. At a recent talk, Washington Post correspondent Thomas Ricks said that officers and soldiers serving in Iraq thought that McCain and Clinton would both pursue a foreign-policy commensurate with Bush's, but Obama left them puzzled. Once in office, Obama might feel compelled to turn his back on the critique he makes on the trail.

But while the doubts about Obama contain fair points, they also, to a certain degree, reflect a triumph of the Iraq War mind-set. Why not demand the destruction of al-Qaeda? Why not pursue the enlightened global leadership promised by liberal internationalism? Why not abandon fear? What is it we have to fear, exactly?

"He goes back to Roosevelt," Power says. "Freedom from fear and freedom from want. What if we actually offered that? What if we delivered that in the developing world? That would be a transformative agenda for us." The end of the Iraq War mind-set, it turns out, may be the beginning of America's reacquaintance with its best traditions.

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Sea tea parties back in NEw-York

Book tickets on Seatea

are you into long hair?

do gay men love or hate long hair?

It seems it is not an important criteria for searching for Mister Right...
Here are some interesting testimonials:

"I have long hair. I love my hair. I like guys with long hair. What is the issue with gay guys and long hair? Should I cut mine to fit in?"

"Yes, you should change whatever you have to about yourself in order to 'fit in' because 'fitting in' is SO important. Not."

"long hair is fine I guess"

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"Generally, I am not attracted to men with long hair, especially mullets, or the messy look the teenagers are going with now. Clean, straight long hair kept in a pony tail can be somewhat sexy on a guy, but only if he also has a rockin' body too."

"If it was trend to sew your eyes should would you follow that simply to fit in?"

"Some gay men like long hair and there are gay men that like it short. Everyone has their own preference. Do what makes yu feel comortable with yourself."


"My hair is about shoulder length right now, all brownish and a bit wavey. I've never had an issue with any guy because of my hair length. If anything my experience has been just the opposite."

"Be yourself and don't worry about fitting in and you will find someone who loves you because your you."

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Troy Polamalu might not have to worry about getting tackled again by his hair.

At their meetings in Palm Beach, Fla., next week, NFL owners will consider a proposal to ban players from having hair flow from their helmets below their names on the back of their jerseys.

That might affect Polamalu’s image, but help him on the field. Two seasons ago, the Pittsburgh safety with the long ponytail had his hair grabbed by Kansas City’s Larry Johnson and was thrown to the turf after an interception against the Chiefs.

The rule banning long hair on the field was proposed by Kansas City. It does not require players to get haircuts, but does “require them to tuck it up inside their helmets,” said Atlanta president Rich McKay, chairman of the league’s competition committee.

Polamalu is the best known of the players, most of them defensive backs, with hair flowing outside their helmets. Others include cornerbacks Al Harris of Green Bay and Mike McKenzie of New Orleans.

Because the rule was proposed by a team, the competition committee did not take a position on it. It will be discussed Monday with a package of other rules


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Troy Aumua Polamalu (pronounced /Pull-a-MAUL-u/) (born Troy Benjamin Aumua on April 19, 1981 in Garden Grove, California) is an American football safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Steelers 16th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern California.

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Hundreds of LGBT African Americans will meet in Baltimore next month in the first ever conference aimed at empowerment.

The three-day conference is being organized by the National Black Justice Coalition - the nation's largest Black LGBT rights group.

Called the Power of Us Conference, it will bring together 50 national experts in 35 workshops, panel discussions, and question and answer sessions.

"[It] is a powerful statement for a community that is rarely portrayed in media and entertainment," the National Black Justice Coalition said in a statement Monday.

The conference will showcase an array of highly successful men, women and youth who are making a difference in their community as Black openly LGBT.

Among those scheduled to participate are newly out Connecticut State Legislator Jason Bartlett; Judge Darrin Gayles; Newark, NJ City Council Member Dana Rone; Wilton Manors, FL City Commissioner Joe Angelo; Kathy Harris and Ray Cunningham of BET's College Hill; and Comic Karen Williams.

The conference will be divided into three main areas - Black wellness including HIV/AIDS, the Black Church and homophobia, and Black LGBT Politics including the 2008 Presidential Race and Marriage Equality.

NBJC said that tickets are still available through its Web site.

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Tutu To Receive International Gay Award

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been named the recipient of a prestigious award by the New York-based International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

The IGLHRC will present its 2008 Outspoken Award as part of the organization's A Celebration of Courage human rights ceremony on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Since 1990 the IGLHRC has documented and fought human rights abuses faced by LGBT people and groups around the world.

"There is really only one name in the world that immediately conjures up moral leadership in pursuit of dignity for all people on earth, and that is Desmond Tutu," said Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC's Executive Director.

"Archbishop Tutu's vision of a world in which human rights are respected has always explicitly included LGBT people, despite the fierce opposition he has faced from his peers and colleagues. He has challenged political apartheid in South Africa and continues to challenge spiritual apartheid within his religious community."

Archbishop Tutu became a leading moral voice in the crusade for justice and racial conciliation in South Africa.

In 1984, he received a Nobel Peace Prize to recognize his extraordinary contributions to the struggle against apartheid.

He was elected Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985, and promoted to Archbishop of Cape Town the following year. As Archbishop, he became a principal mediator and conciliator in the transition to democracy in South Africa. In 1995, President Nelson Mandela appointed him Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a body set up to probe gross human rights violations that occurred under apartheid.

Archbishop Tutu has vocally challenged discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. In a 2004 article in The Times of London, he condemned persecution on the basis of sexual orientation, comparing it to apartheid.

"We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about-our very skins," he wrote. "It is the same with sexual orientation. It is a given. I could not have fought against the discrimination of apartheid and not also fight against the discrimination that homosexuals endure, even in our churches and faith groups."

He has been a vocal opponent of punishing the American branch of his own Anglican Church over the ordination of an openly gay bishop - Gene Robinson in New Hampshire.

"Archbishop Tutu's decision to address our community while in the United States signals the rise in status that LGBT communities around the world are achieving," said Ettelbrick.

"This is a historic opportunity for LGBT people in the US to connect with a leader who plays a monumental role in world events," she said. "And, our community can play a key role in pushing our US leaders to take more responsible and ethical positions on the when it comes to human rights violations within our own country and around the world."

At the same event the IBM Corporation will receive IGLHRC's special recognition award for its contributions to IGLHRC's global mission of building a strong and viable LGBT human rights movement and for its leadership in promoting non-discrimination policies in all of its workplaces in the world.

IBM has been particularly supportive of IGLHRC's work in Latin America, sponsoring IGLHRC's 2007 Human Rights Training Institute in Costa Rica, which was devoted to developing the advocacy capacity of lesbian and bisexual women in Central America.

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Gay Palestinian can live with lover

A GAY Palestinian man has been reunited with his Israeli partner after Israel granted him a rare residency permit.

The 33-year-old from Jenin in the West Bank was issued a temporary permit to live with his partner in Tel Aviv after arguing he faced death threats from fellow Palestinians who disapproved of him being gay, a Defence Ministry official said today.

Israel's Interior Ministry rarely issues permits for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who want to live with their partners in Israel, regardless of sexuality. Requesting such a permit can take years.

"In this case the man's lawyer said his life was in danger because of his sexual preference," said Peter Lerner, spokesman for Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, whose office comes under the Defence Ministry.

"On this basis we issued the temporary permit.''

But while homosexuality is largely taboo in conservative and mainstream Muslim West Bank cities, one rights group working with Palestinian gays said there had been few reports of physical violence in recent years.

However, Palestinians are wary of collaborators and Rauda Morcos, director of Aswat support group for Palestinian lesbians, said this suspicion was directed at gay men and women.

Morcos said Palestinian gays were sometimes targeted by the Israeli secret service and told they must collaborate or face being outed.

While homosexuality is more widely accepted in Israel, some sections of society such as ultra-Orthodox Jews are strident opponents of gay rights and some religious Jews threatened violence during last year's Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem.

Mr Lerner said the man, whom he could not name, would still need eventual approval from the Interior Ministry to stay in Israel on a permanent basis.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on its website the Palestinian man had been asking for permission to live with his Israeli lover, a computer engineer in his 40s, for five years. They have been together for eight years, the paper said.

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Nigerian gay leader violently attacked

SUMMARY: A local leader of Changing Attitude Nigeria is pulled from a funeral and punched by six men, activists say; anti-gay clerics are blamed for inciting hatred.

The leader of a Nigerian gay rights group was violently attacked Thursday while attending a funeral, according to Changing Attitude England, an activist organization.

The man, who was the director of the Port Harcourt chapter of Changing Attitude Nigeria, said a man approached him while the congregation sang a hymn, asking him to speak with him outside. He said he was then attacked with slapping, punching, kicking and spitting by a group of six men.

"While beating me they were shouting, 'You notorious homosexual, you think can run away from us for your notorious group to cause more abomination in our land?'

"Those who attacked me were well informed about us so I suspect an insider or one of the leaders of our Anglican church have hands in this attack," he said in a press release. The attackers threatened to kill the members of the organization for "inducting young people." They also said they would not rest until gays are silenced from activism.

Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude England, said in the press release that violence against LGBT people has been encouraged by notoriously anti-gay Archbishop Peter Akinola and the leaders of the Anglican Church of Nigeria.

"Changing Attitude calls on the Church of Nigeria to denounce violence against LGBT people," Coward said. "We challenge the leaders of the Global South Coalition to repent of their un-Biblical views, which fuel prejudice against LGBT people in our Communion." (The Advocate)


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111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York. Enjoy the videos first and then go behind the scenes with our mission report and photos.

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Around 4:15 we all started heading down to the store. We had 11 people taking photos and video, spread out over the four floors. Five of them were women; we figured they could get away with blatantly filming and taking photographs more easily, especially if they dressed like typical Abercrombie customers.

Our men used a variety of tactics. Agent Shafer had his video camera hiding in a Virgin Megastore bag.

Agent Fountain went with a more casual approach, simply hanging his camera around his neck and taking photos when no one was looking.

Agent CScott was the first to take his shirt off. He thought the go-time was 4:30 and accidentally pulled the trigger 7 minutes early.

He slowly realized he was the only one and that he must have gotten the time wrong, but decided just to roll with it. Employees didn’t seem to care. In fact, one went and checked on a size for him without even commenting on his bare chest.

At 4:37 the other 110 joined in on the fun. Within seconds everywhere you looked there were shirtless men.

I instructed everyone to simply mill about the store and shop. I told them that if anyone asked questions, to just claim that you’re shopping for a shirt.
Customers and employees very quickly started reacting to us. The majority of them laughed, smiled, and took photos
It’s tough to say what the model himself thought of us. He had a variety of reactions over the course of the mission. He was positioned in front of a wall at the entrance, so when the first couple of shirtless guys approached him, he had no knowledge that there were 100 more behind him in the store. He was very aggressive towards these first two agents. It probably didn’t help that the two guys happened to be both taller and more sculpted than he was. “At least I get paid to do this,” he scoffed at them.

He seemed to loosen up later, as he smiled and happily posed for photos with other guys who came by.

The model was happy laugh and joke around with Agent Uncle for a full minute
Back in the store, agents continued shopping, with some trying on items of clothing, looking for a perfect fit.

Another interesting thing about Abercrombie is the mannequins. For some reason, almost all of the male mannequins have their jeans pulled down quite a bit below the waist. There’s a bulge poking out of the tops of the jeans, which if you think about it could only anatomically represent the shaft of a penis. Crazy!

After about 15 minutes, the Abercrombie management decided it was time to kick us out. Security employees started approaching all of our men and asking them to either put a shirt on or leave. They informed us that the model was a paid employee and his state of undress didn’t justify ours. So despite the fact that the store constantly bombards you with the image of the shirtless male, Abercrombie still maintains a “No Shirts; No Service” policy. Some agents protested that they were trying to buy a shirt, but the staff countered with the not-so-logical, “If you put on a shirt then you can buy a shirt.” Many agents just politely agreed to leave and then walked to another floor to shop some more, getting asked to leave several times before finally heading out.

Two agents were actually stopped while in the process of checking out! They were waiting in line for 10 minutes to buy some $45 shirts, only to be grabbed at the register. One of them was in the process of handing over his credit card as he was nabbed and informed he wasn’t allowed to make a purchase!

The stairs got very crowded as agents started heading towards the exit.

Everyone leaving the store at the same time created a whole new scene out on the street as 5th Avenue soon became filled with half-naked men.
Many passing tourists asked if they could get their photo taken with our men.
Others just looked on and laughed.

Everyone had their own theory on what had happened. A British woman told me, “One guy took his shirt off, you know as a rib on the model out front. Then all these other guys saw him and decided to take their shirts off too! One did it, and then they all did!” It was a pretty awesome theory, so I smiled and laughed with her without revealing the truth. Her version of events was much cooler than the truth.

Of course not everyone was as impressed. One guy took a drag off his cigarette and coolly told me, “They’re all just fat asses who are mad because they couldn’t get a job at Abercrombie.” His friends laughed and snapped photos.

gay discrimination on "as the world turns"?

Fans of AS THE WORLD TURNS have launched a campaign against the U.S. soap opera, claiming the producers portray a pair of gay lovers differently than heterosexual couples on the show. In a recent Valentine's Day (14Feb08) episode of the show, gay couple Luke and Noah were the only two characters who didn't kiss - prompting fans to protest the restriction on physical contact between the pair, who have only been showed hugging since they got together last September (07). But Damon Romine of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) has commended the show for its "thoughtful writing of both characters' individual journeys", noting that "Luke and Noah's relationship is the first gay male love story portrayed on daytime in 60 years". Jeannie Tharrington, a spokeswoman for As The World Turns, says, "Everybody at (the show) is committed to this groundbreaking story line. "(Since it started) we've heard from a lot of people - some of whom like it, some of whom don't. We want to tell the story the best way we can, and also want to be respectful of all the people who watch the show."

CBS and Procter and Gamble have been caught in a pincers attack over a storyline involving a gay couple on the long-running As the World Turns, the Los Angeles Times indicated today (Friday). Gay activists have complained that two characters, a young gay couple named Luke and Noah, have not been allowed to kiss or behave on camera the way heterosexual couples do. Damon Romine of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) told the newspaper that "while tremendous strides have been made on soaps, it's clear that we're not at a place where gay and transgender people are treated the same on daytime as they are on prime-time or cable." On the other hand, the American Family Assn. on Thursday urged members to contact Procter and Gamble to demand that it stop sponsoring "overtly pro-homosexual television programs." A spokeswoman for the company, which produces ATWT, said "We're trying to be sensitive to all the different audiences who watch our show. We do make our decision based on what we think is best for the show's diverse audience and what's best creatively."

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Tibet: Understanding why, understanding the story, the history

HISTORY LEADING UP TO MARCH 10TH 1959

Immediately after the communist party took power in China in 1949 it began asserting its claim that Tibet was part of Chinese territory and its people were crying out for "liberation" from "imperialist forces" and from the "reactionary feudal regime in Lhasa".

By October 1950 the People's Liberation Army had penetrated Tibet as far as Chamdo the capital of Kham province and headquarters of the Tibetan Army's Eastern Command. The region was routed and the Governor, Ngawang Jigme Ngabo, taken prisoner. Chinese forces were also stealthily infiltrating Tibet's north-eastern border Province, Amdo, but avoiding military clashes which would alert international interest.

That year the 15-year-old Dalai Lama, his entourage and select government officials, evacuated the capital and set up a provisional administration near the Indian border at Yatung. In July 1951 they were persuaded by Chinese Officials to return to Lhasa. On September 9, 1951, a vanguard of 3,000 Chinese "liberation forces" marched into the capital.

By 1954, 222,000 members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were stationed in Tibet and famine conditions became rampant as the country's delicate subsistence agricultural system was stretched beyond its capacity.

In April 1956, the Chinese inaugurated the Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of Tibet (PCART) in Lhasa, headed by the Dalai Lama and ostensibly convened to modernize the country. In effect, it was a rubber stamp committee set up to validate Chinese claims.

In the later fifties, Lhasa became increasingly politicized and a non-violent resistance evolved, organized by Mimang Tsongdu, a popular and spontaneous citizens' group. Posters denouncing the occupation went up. Stones and dried yak dung were hurled at Chinese street parades. During that period, when the directive from Beijing was still to woo Tibetans rather than oppress them, only the more extreme Mimang Tsongdu leaders and orators faced arrest.

In February 1956, revolt broke out in several areas in Eastern Tibet and heavy casualties were inflicted on the Chinese occupation army by local Kham and Amdo guerilla forces. Chinese troops were relocated from Western to Eastern Tibet to strengthen their forces to 100,000 and "clear up the rebels." Attempts to disarm the Khampas provoked such violent resistance that the Chinese decided to take more militant measures. The PLA then began bombing and pillaging monasteries in Eastern Tibet, arresting nobles, senior monks and guerrilla leaders and publicly torturing and executing them to discourage the large-scale and punitive resistance they were facing.

In Lhasa, 30,000 PLA troops maintained a wary eye as refugees from the fighting in distant Kham and Amdo swelled the population by around 10,000 and formed camps on the city's perimeter.

By December 1958, a revolt was simmering and the Chinese military command was threatening to bomb Lhasa and the Dalai Lama's palace if the unrest was not contained. To Lhasa's south and north-east 20,000 guerrillas and several thousand civilians had been engaging with Chinese troops.

On March 1, 1959, while the Dalai Lama was preoccupied with taking his Final Master of Metaphysics examination, two junior Chinese army officers visited him at the sacred Jokhang cathedral and pressed him to confirm a date on which he could attend a theatrical performance and tea at the Chinese Army Headquarters in Lhasa. The Dalai Lama replied that he would fix a date once the ceremonies had been completed

This was an extraordinary occurrence for two reasons: one, the invitation was not conveyed through the Kashag (the Cabinet) as it should have been; and two, the party was not at the palace where such functions would normally have been held, but at the military headquarters - and the Dalai Lama had been asked to attend alone.

March 7, 1959. The interpreter of General Tan Kuan-sen - one of the three military leaders in Lhasa rang the Chief Official Abbot demanding the date the Dalai Lama would attend their army camp. March 10 was confirmed.

March 8, 1959. This was Women's Day, and the Patriotic Women's Association was treated to a harangue by General Tan Kuan-sen in which he threatened to shell and destroy monasteries if the Khampa guerrillas refused to surrender. "... we knew that the ordinary people of Lhasa were being driven to open rebellion against the Chinese though they would have to fight machine-gunners with their bare hands", writes Mrs. Rinchen Dolma (Mary) Taring in her autobiography, Daughter of Tibet.

March 9, 1959. At 8.00 am two Chinese officers visited the commander of the Dalai Lama bodyguards' house and asked him to accompany them to see Brigadier Fu at the Chinese military headquarters in Lhasa. Brigadier Fu told him that on the following day there was to be no customary ceremony as the Dalai Lama moved from the Norbulinka summer palace to the army headquarters, two miles beyond. No armed bodyguard was to escort him and no Tibetan soldiers would be allowed beyond the Stone Bridge - a landmark on the perimeter of the sprawling army camp.

By custom, an escort of twenty-five armed guards always accompanied the Dalai Lama and the entire city of Lhasa would line up whenever he went. Brigadier Fu told the commander of the Dalai Lama's bodyguards that under no circumstances should the Tibetan army cross the Stone bridge and the entire procedure must be kept strictly secret.

The Chinese camp had always been an eyesore for the Tibetans and the fact that the Dalai Lama was now to visit it would surely create greater anxiety amongst the Tibetans.

March 10, 1959. The invitation provoked 30,000 loyal Tibetans to surround the Norbulinka palace, forming an human sea of protection for their Yeshe Norbu (nickname for the Dalai Lama, meaning "Precious Jewel"). They feared he would be abducted to Beijing to attend the upcoming Chinese National Assembly. This mobilization forced the Dalai Lama to turn down the army leader's invitation. Instead he was held a prisoner of devotion.

March 12, 1959. 5,000 Tibetan women marched through the streets of Lhasa carrying banners demanding "Tibet for Tibetans" and shouting "From today Tibet is Independent". They presented an appeal for help to the Indian Consulate-General in Lhasa.

Mimang Tsongdu members and their supporters had erected barricades in Lhasa's narrow streets while the Chinese militia had positioned sandbag fortifications for machine guns on the city's flat rooftops. 3000 Tibetans in Lhasa signed their willingness to join the rebels manning the valley's ring of mountains.

On March 15, 3000 of the Dalai Lama's bodyguards left Lhasa to position themselves along an anticipated escape route. Khampa rebel leaders moved their most trusted men to strategic points. Stalwarts of the Tibetan Army merged with civilians to cover the chosen route. By this time the Tibetans were out-numbered 25 to 2. An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Chinese troops wielded modern weapons and had 17 heavy guns surrounding the city. While the Chinese manned swiveling howitzers, the Tibetans were wielding cannons into position with mules.

March 16, 1959. Chinese heavy artillery was seen being moved to sites within range of Lhasa and particularly the Norbulinka. Rumours were rife of more troops being flown in from China. By nightfall Lhasa was certain that the Dalai Lama's palace was about to be shelled.

March 17, 1959 4 pm. The Chinese fired two mortar shells at the Norbulinka. They landed short of the palace walls in a marsh. This event triggered the Dalai Lama to finally decide to leave his homeland.

"... when the Chinese guns sounded that warning of death, the first thought in the mind of every official within the Palace, and every humble member of the vast concourse around it, was that my life must be saved and I must leave the Palace and leave the city at once", recalls His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in his autobiography, My Land and My People "There was no certainty that escape was physically possible at all - Ngabo had assured us it was not.. If I did escape from Lhasa, where was I to go, and how could I reach asylum? Everything was uncertain, except the compelling anxiety of all my people to get me away before the orgy of Chinese destruction and massacre began".

At 10 pm. on the night of March 17, wearing a soldier's uniform with a gun slung over his shoulder, the Dalai Lama marched out of the Norbulinka and onto the danger-filled road to India and freedom His mother and elder sister had preceded him.

March 19, 1959. Fighting broke out in Lhasa late that night and raged for two days of hand-to-hand combat with odds stacked hopelessly against the Tibetan resistance.

At 2.00 am the Chinese started shelling NorbuLingka. The Norbulinka was bombarded by 800 shells on March 21 Thousands of men, women and children camped around the palace wall were slaughtered and the homes of about 300 officials within the walls destroyed. In the aftermath 200 members of the Dalai Lama's bodyguard were disarmed and publicly machine-gunned. Lhasa's major monasteries, Gaden, Sera and Drepung were shelled -the latter two beyond repair - and monastic treasures and precious scriptures destroyed. Thousands of their monks were either killed on the spot, transported to the city to work as slave labour, or deported. In house-to-house searches the residents of any homes harbouring arms were dragged out and shot on the spot. Over 86,000 Tibetans in central Tibet were killed by the Chinese during this period.

The Dalai Lama and his party crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane Pass on March 31. Pandit Nehru announced on April 3 in the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) that the Government of India had granted asylum to the Dalai Lama. The party took a couple of days to reach Tawang the headquaters of the West Kameng Frontier Division of the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA), now known as the Tawang District of Arunachal Pradesh.

The Dalai Lama stayed four days in Tawang where he had the opportunity to visit the beautiful monastery Tawang Gompa and Urgyeling, the place where the 6th Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyaltso spent his first years. The Dalai Lama later proceeded to Bomdila where he was officially received by an envoy of the Indian Government a welcome message from Nehru. After a few days of rest, the party left for the plains of India.

On April 18, 1959, the Dalai Lama, his mother, sister, brother, three ministers and around 80 other Tibetans crossed safely into India at Tezpur, Assam, to be greeted by Indian officials and a Press corps of nearly 200 correspondents, all eager for what they called "The Story of the Century".

>From Tezpur he made his famous statement known as the Tezpur Statement in which he repudiated the 17 Point Agreement signed under duress" in 1951 in Beijing.

He then left for Mussorie.


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Dutch to legalise gay sex in public park

Dutch council officials will permit gay sex in public areas but fine dog owners who let their pets off the leash in Amsterdam's Vondelpark.

Paul van Grieken, an Alderman in the Oud-Zuid district of the city, has startled many Amsterdammers, despite their famously liberal attitudes, with plans to allow public sex as part of this summer's new rules of conduct for the country's best-known park.


"Why should we try to impose something that is actually impossible to impose, which also causes little bother for others and for a certain group actually means much pleasure?", he said.

Amsterdam's beautiful Vondelpark in the centre of city draws hordes of summer visitors, families, skaters and joggers.

But the park's rose garden has become famous as a trysting spot for gay men looking for uncomplicated sexual encounters.

Mr van Grieken stresses that tolerance to "cruising" gays, aimed at protecting homosexuals from violence, will have "strict rules attached".

"Thus, condoms must always be cleared away, it must never take place in the neighbourhood of children's playgrounds and the sex must be restricted to the evening and night-time," he said.

The new park rules have the blessing of the Dutch police, who have urged all Dutch parks to follow Amsterdam's lead.

But Amsterdam's dog owners are less impressed. The new park code of conduct will set out stiff fines for dogs that are allowed to run around the Vondelpark off the leash.

"Research showed that many people find this disturbing," said Mr van Grieken.

One dog owner protested: "As long as the park has existed, we've been allowed to let our dogs run freely. It's outrageous that we will be punished from now on but public sex won't. If they can drop their trousers, why can't I let my dog loose?"

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Why is Tibet's situation important right now?

Why Tibet?

An Introduction to the Question of Tibet

Why is there an outcry about Tibet? Why is a nation larger than Western Europe held captive and tortured by a foreign power, while the world's leaders stand by or deny responsibility for doing business with the oppressor? Why is Tibet's situation important right now?

The pages below tell how Tibet has come to the most perilous moment in its 3,000 year existence. It is a common theme of history; many ancient and peaceful indigenous civilizations have been assaulted by military powers in search of land and booty. Tibet, an independent nation until the Chinese invasion, is now faced with extinction. But it is not yet too late.

It would be very difficult to oust the Chinese by armed force, and it would go against the Tibetan Buddhist belief in non-violence. Instead, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people have used diplomacy and non-violent activism in the hopes that the People's Republic of China will be condemned and pressured to withdraw its occupation forces from Tibet.

It is our belief that anyone who hears of what has happened in Tibet will support its cause. But the Tibetans must be heard. Please read on to find out why Tibet needs and deserves your support. If you are moved to become actively involved, contact a Tibet Support Group near you.

In a world where terrorism gets so much attention, it is important to support those who are willing to brave the path of peace.

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This morning Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for president.

Governor Richardson called for a new generation of leadership that would bring us together here at home and strengthen our relationships with our allies abroad.

He praised Barack's speech on race in America this week as an example of courageous, thoughtful, and inspiring leadership. He thanked Barack for speaking to us as adults, and reminding us that cynicism is not realism, and that hope is not folly.

Governor Richardson also said Barack would be an outstanding Commander-in-Chief. He recognized Barack's opposition to the Iraq war before it began, and emphasized the need for a President that understands the national security challenges facing America.

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Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are reading from the same political playbook as they attack Barack on foreign policy.

They have both criticized Barack's commitment to act against top al Qaeda terrorists if others can't or won't act.

And they have both dismissed his call for renewed diplomacy as naïve while mistakenly standing behind George Bush's policy of non-engagement that just isn't working.

But most of all -- after five years of overwhelming evidence that we are less safe, less able to shape events abroad, and more divided at home -- Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are failing to address the consequences of a war they both supported that should have never been authorized and never been waged.

We need a leader who had the judgment to oppose this war before it began and who has a clear plan to end it.

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Gay and Lesbian Movies Awards

Barbara Walters, right, and “60 Minutes” shared the award for television news magazines at the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards in New York on Monday, Reuters reported. Ms. Walters won for “My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children,” on ABC’s “20/20,” and “60 Minutes,” on CBS, won for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” about the United States military’s policy on gay and lesbian service members. The award for outstanding film in limited release went to the Hebrew- and Arabic-language film “The Bubble,” about a love affair between and Israeli soldier and a Palestinian man. “For the Bible Tells Me So” was named outstanding documentary. Among the other honorees for coverage of gay and lesbian issues were The New York Times, GQ magazine, CNN.com and the television series “Boston Legal.”

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Sidcup councillor Mike Slaughter has promised to visit the park regularly on behalf of parents WORRIED parents are boycotting a children's play park because they claim it has been taken over by men looking for gay sex.

The parents say they have contacted both Bexley Council and the police in an effort to stop the activities at the park in Sidcup Place, Sidcup, which is close to the town centre.

But they claim nothing has been done.

One mum, who is too frightened to be named, told News Shopper: "We noticed men had started loitering in the area and then disappeared into the bushes.

"I actually saw one man dropping his trousers as he went.

"I would rather face a gang of youths in the play park than this."

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She says parents, mainly mums with young children, were now too worried about the situation to take their children to play there.

The woman added: "I take my own and my friends' children there to play.

"They like it because it is such a lovely park."

According to the woman, several mums have contacted the police about the situation.

She said: "I called the police from the play park one day when it was going on but no-one came."

The 35-year-old added: "The park is quite isolated and when we see these men loitering, we can't say what they are up to, but it makes us feel so uncomfortable we have to leave."

She says there are often lots of men sitting nearby in their cars, on their own.

They get out of their cars and loiter before disappearing into the shrubbery with other men.

She said: "It is quite unnerving, especially when your child needs to use the public toilets.

“I don’t care if it is heterosexual or homosexual, they shouldn’t be using a children’s play area for these kind of activities.”


"I don't care if it is heterosexual or homosexual, they shouldn't be using a children's play area for these kind of activities."

The woman says she and other mums have approached Bexley Council's park ranger about the situation.

She said: "He told us the area was patrolled regularly and the toilets are under surveillance.

"But we have never seen these patrols when we are there and the activities are still going on."

She added: "It is sad because it is such a fantastic park and people won't go there anymore because of this."

Bexley Council says one of its rangers did get a report of homosexual activity, but found nothing when he investigated it.

A spokesman said: "We assumed this to be an isolated incident."

The ranger did report the incident to police.

The spokeswoman said Sidcup Place did get an out-of-hours patrol because of anti-social behaviour.

Staff would now be asked to look out for men loitering in the area.

She added rangers would also be discussing the situation with the local policing team to see if it can provide "a more visible presence during the day".

The spokeswoman says members of the public should call the police if they were concerned about anything they see.

Sidcup councillor Mike Slaughter has promised to visit the play park to look into the matter.

Bexley police told News Shopper they had no-one available to comment on the situation.

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Sean Penn shares an onscreen smooch with a male co-star in his latest movie role, playing one of America's first openly gay politicians.

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Penn's co-star Mark Martinez claims the Oscar winner embraced the kiss, and threw himself wholeheartedly into the liplock.

Penn plays San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk in the Gus Van Sant directed Milk.

Martinez, who appears as cross-dressing disco singer Sylvester James, tells PageSix.com, "I'm performing, and (Penn) comes onto the dance floor.

"He grabs me, and he just slaps the biggest kiss on me...It felt like the kiss was forever. I'm like, is he going to stop? I had to close my eyes, I couldn't believe it."

He was so taken with the kiss, he asked Van Sant to reshoot the scene: "I'm thinking, we gotta do this thing again. We just didn't get it right. But Gus was like, 'It's perfect, perfect, perfect.' I said, 'No! It's not perfect! Sean was laughing at me!'"

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The Norwegian government proposed a marriage law Friday that would give gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals, including church weddings, adoption and assisted pregnancies.

The new legislation would replace a 1993 law that granted gays the right to enter civil unions similar to marriage but did not give them other benefits enjoyed by married couples.

"This new marriage law is a step forward along the lines of voting rights for all and equality laws," said Minister of Children and Equality Anniken Huitfeldt.

The measure gives gays the right to a church wedding but does not require any minister or religious organization to perform the ceremony. The proposal also grants the right to assisted pregnancies to lesbians and allows gays to be considered as adoptive parents.

"The new law does not weaken the institution of marriage, rather, it strengthens it," Huitfeldt said. "Marriage does not become less valuable because more people can take part in it."

It was not clear whether parliament would approve the measure without changes.

Minister of Local Government Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa and Transport Minister Liv Signe Navarsete said they were against the right to assisted pregnancies but endorsed the rest of the bill. The opposition Christian Democratic party said it opposed the measure.

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the most luxurious train is in Tibet

China will launch "the most luxurious train in the world" to ply the route from Beijing to Tibet's capital Lhasa, state media reported Sunday.


However, a ride on the train, which will begin operations on September 1, will be about 20 times more expensive than the ordinary fare of about 2,000 yuan (280 dollars), Xinhua news agency said.

"The interior of the train will be decorated according to the standards of a five-star hotel, making it the most luxurious train in the world," said Zhu Mingrui, general manager of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corporation.

"Such a train can only seat 96 passengers. The fare would be about 20 times the normal price and also much more than an airline ticket," he said.

There will be three trains, which will head from Beijing to Lhasa every eight days. The luxury journey will take five days.

Each train will have 12 passenger cars, two dining cars and a sightseeing car. Each passenger car will have four ten-square-metre (108-square-foot) suites featuring a double bed, a living room and bathing facilities.

The train line to the Himalayan "roof of the world" went into operation in July 2006.

Chinese authorities see the 1,142-kilometre (710-mile) railway as an important tool in modernising and developing Tibet, which has been part of China since its troops occupied the region in 1950.

However, critics say that the line is allowing the Han Chinese, the national majority, to flood into Tibet, leading to the devastation of the local culture as well accelerating environmental degradation of the region.

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Now in its 18th season, the Columbus Gay Men's Chorus has established a reputation for the enthusiastic, expressive delivery of a sometimes-adventurous repertoire. That tradition was upheld in its spring concert last night at the Southern Theatre, where - with Strings Attached - the chorus was joined by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, all conducted by chorus Artistic Director David Monseur.

Inspirational selections by Randall Thompson, including the famous Alleluia, opened and gave the concert an emotional dimension from the outset, one the large audience embraced immediately.

Yet as committed as the chorus sounded in delivering these works, these first renditions lacked a degree of care in the shaping and rendering of lines and phrases.

Considerably better in this area were the next two selections, led by assistant director Tim Sarsany. The Cantique de Jean Racine of Faure, especially, revealed a lovely lyricism heretofore absent.

The first part of the concert consigned the ensemble of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra players to an accompanying role. Their workload increased considerably in Ives' Circus Band, a short, boisterous piece that is simultaneously homage and satire. Here, it was performed with just the right spirit by the chorus and instrumentalists, once again under the direction of Monseur.

Of the excerpts by Bernstein, most moving was Make Our Garden Grow from Candide, certainly in part because the composer himself was at his very best, but also because of the good, strong voices of soloists Mark Cooke, baritone, and Corey R. Notman, tenor.

ProMusica offered the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, which features solo violin, flute and harpsichord. The long cadenza for keyboard at the end of the first movement is at once famous and treacherous. Yet ProMusica's Aya Hamada defined the torrent of notes beautifully for the ear, while never sacrificing virtuosity; her illuminating playing drew well-deserved cheers.

The smaller a cappella group VOX presented a trio of pieces by the illustrious P.D.Q. Bach called The Art of the Ground Round, no doubt because of its meaty fugues. The small chorus, like the larger, sings and blends well and stays nicely in tune but could definitely work on enunciation. In humor, it's not just nice, it's a necessity.

I was unable to stay to hear the final piece, the Lay of the Land by Robert Seeley.

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Austrian luxury designer and jeweler Peter Aloisson has something more to add to his kitty – ladies and gentlemen, presenting to you the Aloisson designed iPhone – the world’s most expensive iPhone. While diamond studded phones are nothing new, the only thing the iPhone Princess Plus has to its credit is being the most expensive iPhone. The phone derives its name from the Princess cut used on 138 of the 318 diamonds on its surface. The rest of the 180 diamonds on the phone are brilliant cut and it has 17.75 carats of diamonds set in 18k white gold around its rim. All diamonds used are of the best quality.

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David Beckham back to England

 
 
 

David Beckham was recalled to England's national team Friday for what could be Steve McClaren's last games as coach.

The Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder sprained his right knee in August and missed England's 3-0 victories against Israel and Russia at Wembley in September.

"He's an important player for England. He always has been over the years," McClaren said. "I think he proved in his comeback in the summer against Brazil and Estonia he was one of our best players and unfortunately he got injured."

The former England captain also was out for England's 2-1 defeat in Russia last month, which leaves qualification for the 2008 European Championship out of McClaren's hands.

Beckham is now back for next Friday's friendly against Austria and the potentially decisive Nov. 21 Euro qualifier against Croatia, which could be meaningless unless Israel beats Russia five days earlier.

Just 15 months into the job, McClaren's prospects of staying on will be bleak if England fails to reach its first major tournament since the 1994 World Cup.

Before the pivotal Israel-Russia game, England plays a friendly in Austria next Friday, when Beckham will be hoping to add to his 97 caps.

McClaren made a trip to Los Angeles last weekend to judge the fitness of Beckham, whom he initially dropped after taking over as coach in August 2006.

"The injury is fine, the fitness is fine," McClaren said. "He hasn't played games, but he is included in the squad because I believe with the likes of Rio Ferdinand and John Terry out of the squad we're lacking experience and big game players.

"David Beckham is one of them."

McClaren's assistant, Terry Venables, warned the Football Association on Friday not to rush into a "knee-jerk reaction" if England failed to advance to next year's tournament in Switzerland and Austria.

"They must make sure they come to a decision for the right reasons, not just because it seems right at one particular moment," said Venables, who coached England to the Euro 96 semifinals. "We are not thinking about our futures."

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end of gay club lawsuit for Okeechobee schools

Attorneys for the Okeechobee County School Board want a judge to toss out a lawsuit brought by a former student, who said Okeechobee High School violated federal law by not allowing a Gay-Straight Alliance to meet on campus.

Yasmin Gonzalez, the club's founder, has graduated, so her complaint is moot, school board attorney David Gibbs said in a court document filed Thursday.


Gibbs already has asked the judge to dissolve an April 2007 order that required the school to allow the Gay-Straight Alliance to meet on campus as the case makes its way through court. The club no longer has any members and hasn't had meetings since November, according to court records.

After Gonzalez graduated in 2007, student Jessica Donaldson took over duties as president until February, when she transferred to another school. Another student, Stephanie Gardner, briefly served as president but also has left the school, according to court records.

In his latest filing, Gibbs said federal courts are limited to hearing actual "cases" and "controversies." Typically, graduation moots a student's claims, unless there's a chance the student will suffer again from the alleged injuries caused by the defendant, Gibbs said in the document.

Because Gonzalez has graduated, she can't be affected by whether Okeechobee High School allows the Gay-Straight Alliance to meet on campus, according to Gibbs' filing.

The club itself already has been dropped as a plaintiff in the case, because of the lack of membership. Gonzalez has said she started the club to provide a safe environment for students to talk about homophobia and to promote tolerance of one another, regardless of sexual orientation.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Gonzalez in the suit, wants to add Donaldson as a plaintiff.

Attorneys for both sides in the case have asked the judge to rule on the case before it gets to trial.


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Iranian gay can stay in UK because of persecution

A GAY Iranian teenager will be allowed to stay in Britain because his case is so notorious that it would be dangerous to deport him to Tehran.

Mehdi Kazemi went to London to study A levels in 2005.

He applied for asylum in 2006 after discovering in a single distressing phone call that his former boyfriend had been charged in Iran with sodomy - he was later executed - that the police wished to question him about their relationship and that his father had cut him out of the family.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith granted Mr Kazemi a temporary reprieve yesterday when she announced his case would be reconsidered when he returns from The Netherlands.

Ms Smith intervened after receiving representations from MPs and peers alarmed that Mr Kazemi, 19, could face execution if returned to his homeland.

In reality, the case of Mr Kazemi has now received so much publicity in Europe that if he were sent back to Iran, there would be a real risk of him facing persecution.

Mr Kazemi's solicitor in The Netherlands, Borg Palm, yesterday welcomed the intervention by Ms Smith, but said that it would give his client a future only if he were granted asylum.

"I am very happy, and I am sure that my client will also be very happy, once he comes to learn of this, but we will also be reluctant to start celebrating too quickly. He is very much afraid of being allowed to stay in Britain but without being granted official permission.

"That would then put him in a no man's land. He would be very unhappy in the long term."

After his asylum application had been refused, he left Britain for the Czech Republic and tried to fly to Canada but was caught using a false passport. He eventually arrived in The Netherlands last year and tried to apply for asylum for a second time.

In a letter to Ms Smith, Mr Kazemi wrote: "I did not come to the UK to claim asylum. I came here to study and return to my country. But ... my situation has changed."

His case will be re-examined by Home Office officials.

Campaigners welcomed Ms Smith's decision to order a review.

The teenager's case has become a campaign cause for gay rights activists across Europe.

More than 4000 gay men and lesbians have been executed in Iran since 1979, according to human rights campaigners from the country.

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